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Navajo Sand Painted Pottery

This type of art that exists in highly developed forms among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest and in simpler forms among several Plains and California Indian tribes. Although sand painting is an art form, it is valued among the Indians primarily for religious rather than aesthetic reasons. Its main function is in connection with healing ceremonies.

Sand paintings are stylized, symbolic pictures prepared by trickling small quantities of crushed, colored sandstone, charcoal, pollen, or other dry materials in white, blue, yellow, black, and red hues on a background of clean, smoothed sand. About 600 different pictures are known, consisting of various representations of deities, animals, lightning, rainbows, plants, and other symbols described in the chants that accompany various rites. In healing, the choice of the particular painting is left to the curer. Upon completion of the picture, the patient sits on the centre of the painting, and sand from the painting is applied to parts of his body. When the ritual is completed, the painting is destroyed.

For years the Indians would not allow permanent, exact copies of sand paintings to be made. When the designs were copied in rugs, an error was deliberately made so that the original design would still be powerful. Today many of the paintings have been copied both to preserve the art and for the record.

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in a sunface design.

8 3/4" Tall, 8 1/2" Wide

Suggested Retail $150.00 / Your Price: SOLD

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in a yei design.

10" Tall, 6" Wide

Suggested Retail $99.00 / Your Price: $75.00

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in a bear design.

6" Tall, 9" Wide

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in a sunshield design.

7" Tall, 6 1/2" Wide

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in a Yei design.

7 3/4" Tall, 5" Wide

Suggested Retail $60.00 / Your Price: SOLD

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in a lizard design.

7 3/4" Tall, 5" Wide

Suggested Retail $60.00 / Your Price: $45.00

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in a kokopelli design.

5" Tall, 8 1/2" Wide

Suggested Retail $145.00 / Your Price: $115.00

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in a bear design.

3 1/2" Tall, 7" Wide

Suggested Retail $60.00 / Your Price: $48.00

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY WEDDING VASE

By Junior Whiterock

Junior is a Navajo sand painter and the brother of John C. Whiterock, the Navajo clay artist.  Junior was awarded a 2nd place ribbon at the 2008 Santa Fe Indian Market (the winning pot can be seen in the bottom picture on the right side).  Junior hand coils his pots and coats them in pine pitch before beginning the process of applying the sand.  His pots feature intricate detail and the vase shapes can hold water if being used as a flower vase.  Each piece is signed by the artist. 

This piece features an eagle dancer on one side and a fetish style bear on the other. In between the two larger images are smaller geometric designs with feather patterns.

10 1/2" Tall, 6 1/4" Wide

Suggested Retail $293.00 / Your Price: SOLD

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in an end of the trail design.

8" Tall, 7 1/2" Wide

Suggested Retail $85.00 / Your Price: SOLD

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in a bear design.

3" Tall, 5 1/4" Wide

Suggested Retail $50.00 / Your Price: SOLD

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

This incredible piece comes from the Navajo nation and was hand painted using traditional sand painting techniques in a yei design.

3" Tall, 5 1/4" Wide

Suggested Retail $50.00 / Your Price: SOLD

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY

By Junior Whiterock

Junior is a Navajo sand painter and the brother of John C. Whiterock, the Navajo clay artist.  Junior was awarded a 2nd place ribbon at the 2008 Santa Fe Indian Market (the winning pot can be seen in the bottom picture on the right side).  Junior hand coils his pots and coats them in pine pitch before beginning the process of applying the sand.  His pots feature intricate detail and the vase shapes can hold water if being used as a flower vase.  Each piece is signed by the artist.

This piece features Pollen Boy on the Sun on one side and a mesa scene on the other. In between the two larger images are smaller geometric designs with feather patterns.

6 1/4" Tall, 5 1/2" Wide

Suggested Retail $315.00 / Your Price: SOLD

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NAVAJO SAND PAINTED POTTERY WEDDING VASE

By Junior Whiterock

Junior is a Navajo sand painter and the brother of John C. Whiterock, the Navajo clay artist.  Junior was awarded a 2nd place ribbon at the 2008 Santa Fe Indian Market (the winning pot can be seen in the bottom picture on the right side).  Junior hand coils his pots and coats them in pine pitch before beginning the process of applying the sand.  His pots feature intricate detail and the vase shapes can hold water if being used as a flower vase.  Each piece is signed by the artist.

This piece features a fetish style bear on one side and a mesa scene on the other. In between the two larger images are smaller geometric designs with feather patterns.

10 1/2" Tall, 6 1/4" Wide

Suggested Retail $293.00 / Your Price: SOLD

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